effluvia

Example Sentences

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One turbine spins in the fiery effluvia of engine exhaust, with temperatures around 1,000 degrees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Many Wallingford houses were built to avoid the hellish view of tower effluvia.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2023

Today's equivalent might be a sewer worker - but rather than scrabbling through effluvia for scrap metal they go underground for maintenance, such as the grim job of clearing fatbergs.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2021

But she also makes you fear for Alexia, who can outrun the authorities but can’t escape the agonizing contortions and messy alien effluvia of her own body.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2021

The drains are badly made and left absolutely to themselves until, choked up, they are opened up for repairs, when the hidden compressed effluvia send their noxious vapours into the homes around.

From Sidelights on Chinese Life by Macgowan, J. (John)